{"id":85738,"date":"2023-02-23T20:31:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T01:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=85738"},"modified":"2023-02-23T22:46:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T03:46:29","slug":"google-is-making-it-easier-to-find-out-if-places-in-the-community-are-accessible-to-people-with-disabilities-all-with-the-touch-of-a-button-heasley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2023\/02\/23\/google-is-making-it-easier-to-find-out-if-places-in-the-community-are-accessible-to-people-with-disabilities-all-with-the-touch-of-a-button-heasley\/","title":{"rendered":"Google is making it easier to find out if places in the community are accessible to people with disabilities, all with the touch of a button. [Heasley]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.disabilityscoop.com\/2022\/12\/08\/google-enhances-accessibility-information\/30164\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Google Enhances Accessibility Information<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from disabilityscoop.com by Shaun Heasley<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt <span style=\"color: #800000;\">(emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Google is making it easier to find out if places in the community are accessible to people with disabilities, all with the touch of a button.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The company said recently that it is expanding a feature called \u201cAccessible Places,\u201d which allows Google Maps users to see if businesses are wheelchair accessible and free of stairs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Google\u00a0originally rolled out\u00a0Accessible Places in 2020 in the U.S., Australia, Japan and the United Kingdom, but now says the option is available globally and includes details on more than 40 million locations.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Along the lines of accessibility-related items, see:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/billfischer.substack.com\/p\/over-11-million-jobs-in-the-us-may\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Over 11 Million Jobs in the U.S. May Exclude Color-Blind Persons<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from\u00a0billfischer.substack.com by Bill Fischer<br \/>\n<em>Employing design solutions that involve text, pattern, and other types of visual differentiation besides color as well as developing color-identifying smart-glasses technology can start to break down occupational barriers for color-blind persons.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Below is a list of occupations that require testing for color-blindness, divided into two categories: those in which design choices create challenges and those in which the issues are rooted in the natural environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Enhances Accessibility Information &#8212; from disabilityscoop.com by Shaun Heasley Excerpt (emphasis DSC): Google is making it easier to find out if places in the community are accessible to people with disabilities, all with the touch of a button. The company said recently that it is expanding a feature called \u201cAccessible Places,\u201d which allows Google [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,190,851,63,382],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility-udl","category-assistive-technologies","category-bias-diversity-equity-inclusion-dei","category-google","category-neurodivergent-special-needs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85738"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85751,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85738\/revisions\/85751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}